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type: "Bill"
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title: "Residential real estate transfers: title insurance: escrow companies."
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description: "Existing law generally regulates the transfer of real property, and imposes specified obligations on a seller of real property. Existing law authorizes a mortgagee or beneficiary under a deed of trust to sell property securing the mortgage or deed of trust at a foreclosure sale under certain circumstances. Existing federal law prohibits a seller of property that will be purchased with the assistance of a federally related mortgage loan from requiring the buyer to purchase insurance from any particular company."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20092010"
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identifier: "AB 957"
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citation: "California AB 957 (20092010)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Residential real estate transfers: title insurance: escrow companies."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Galgiani"]
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version_count: 9
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action_count: 27
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2009-02-26"
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last_action: "2009-10-11"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6f67c583-20c3-4f9a-84cf-949cf2827cc0"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB957"
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source_hash: "82fb0e07a81e2b7834a256ae5eb0cfd98ad8e072acc59defa28bce42e22ecae6"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 957 (20092010) — Residential real estate transfers: title insurance: escrow companies.
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Existing law generally regulates the transfer of real property, and imposes specified obligations on a seller of real property. Existing law authorizes a mortgagee or beneficiary under a deed of trust to sell property securing the mortgage or deed of trust at a foreclosure sale under certain circumstances. Existing federal law prohibits a seller of property that will be purchased with the assistance of a federally related mortgage loan from requiring the buyer to purchase insurance from any particular company.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/26/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB957&version=20090AB95799INT)
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2. **04/22/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB957&version=20090AB95798AMD)
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3. **05/14/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB957&version=20090AB95797AMD)
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4. **06/16/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB957&version=20090AB95796AMD)
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5. **06/26/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB957&version=20090AB95795AMD)
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6. **08/17/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB957&version=20090AB95794AMD)
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7. **10/11/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB957&version=20090AB95792CHP)
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8. **AB957** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB957)
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9. **09/09/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB957&version=20090AB95793ENR)
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## Votes
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- AB 957 GALGIANI Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary. — **pass** (pass) · lower
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- AB 957 GALGIANI Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Rules. — **pass** (pass) · upper
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- Assembly 3rd Reading AB957 Galgiani Urgency Clause — **pass** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Galgiani — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2009-02-26** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2009-02-27** From printer. May be heard in committee March 29.
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- **2009-03-26** Referred to Coms. on B. & F. and JUD. `referral-committee`
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- **2009-04-21** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (April 20). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
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- **2009-04-22** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2009-04-23** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
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- **2009-05-13** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 5). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
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- **2009-05-14** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2009-05-18** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2009-05-26** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1685.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2009-05-27** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2009-06-11** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and RLS. `referral-committee`
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- **2009-06-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
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- **2009-06-25** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 23). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
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- **2009-06-26** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2009-07-02** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
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- **2009-07-07** Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on second reading file.
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- **2009-07-08** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2009-08-17** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
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- **2009-08-18** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2009-09-01** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 4. Page 2070.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2009-09-02** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 4 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
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- **2009-09-03** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2970.)
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- **2009-09-03** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 74. Noes 1. Page 2986.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2009-09-11** Enrolled and to the Governor at 7 p.m.
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- **2009-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2009-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 264, Statutes of 2009.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6f67c583-20c3-4f9a-84cf-949cf2827cc0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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